Description of problem: kickstart installation fails because of this partition layout zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel bootloader --location=mbr hda=ide-scsi --append="pci=nommconf vga=791 rhgb quiet apic=bigsmp" part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary part / --fstype ext3 --size 8192 part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 4096 part swap --size 7971 part pv.01 --fstype ext3 --size 8192 volgroup usr_vg pv.01 logvol /usr --vgname usr_vg --name=usrvol --size 1 --grow part pv.02 --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow volgroup data_vg pv.02 logvol /opt --vgname data_vg --name=optvol --size 8192 logvol /var/opt --vgname data_vg --name=varoptvol --size 1 --grow Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): version as anaconda-10.1.1.81 How reproducible: use kickstart and use this partition layout the 7971 size comes from 'awk '/^MemTotal:/ {print int($2/1024)}' /proc/meminfo' The vlm command was: ['lvm', 'vgcreate', '-v', '-An', '-s', '32768k', 'data_vg', '/dev/cciss/c0d0p7'] The error is: /tmp/lvmout: File descriptor 3 left open File descriptor 4 left open File descriptor 5 left open File descriptor 6 left open File descriptor 7 left open File descriptor 9 left open File descriptor 10 left open File descriptor 11 left open File descriptor 12 left open File descriptor 13 left open File descriptor 14 left open File descriptor 15 left open File descriptor 17 left open File descriptor 18 left open File descriptor 19 left open File descriptor 20 left open File descriptor 21 left open File descriptor 22 left open WARNING: Duplicate VG name data_vg: Existing pQO92y-lmfr-FySa-crMt-F6Sm-ofa3-863Ixj (created here) takes precedence over jx0Wxu-YLvc-z5RV-lj6Q-WHt2-oNBc-9omWGr Fixing up missing format1 size (7.78 GB) for PV /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 WARNING: Physical Volume /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 is too large for underlying device A volume group called 'data_vg' already exists. ving volume group "data_vg" metadata (seqno 3). Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/data_vg" (seqno 3). Finding volume group "data_vg" Fixing up missing format1 size (7.78 GB) for PV /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 WARNING: Physical Volume /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 is too large for underlying device Archiving volume group "data_vg" metadata (seqno 3). Archiving volume group "data_vg" metadata (seqno 3). Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/data_vg" (seqno 3). Finding volume group "usr_vg" Archiving volume group "usr_vg" metadata (seqno 1). Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/usr_vg" (seqno 1). Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "data_vg" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "data_vg" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "usr_vg" using metadata type lvm2
I found the problem is not in this specific layout itself. I use a similar layout over and over, cause I repeat the install of this os image many times. if i perform a: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ccis/c0d0 bs=1G count=100 then I repeat the installation with the same ks and goes fine. maybe some of: zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel are not working?
You should really try this with 4.7. We fixed a bug (257161) where certain LVM operations failed because of obsolete metadata. Specifically, lvm metadata describing volume groups on disks that had been cleared was preventing us from creating a new volume group of the same name. Also, as always, we need to see the actual (complete) traceback and/or error message you received. /tmp/anaconda.log is also often useful.